Hellboy

Hellboy
Hellboy
	Hellboy by Mike Mignola
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
First appearance	Dime Press #4 (March 1993) – first Hellboy prototype appearance, cover only; San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 (August 1993) – first full Hellboy appearance, black and white only; Next Men #21 (December 1993) – first appearance in a regularly published title, first color appearance;
Created by	Mike Mignola
In-story information
Alter ego	Anung un Rama
Species	Cambion (half-human, half-demon)
Team affiliations	B.P.R.D.
Partnerships	Abe Sapien; Liz Sherman; Johann Kraus;
Notable aliases	World Destroyer, Great Beast, Beast of the Apocalypse, Right Hand of Doom, Son of the Fallen One, Brother Red, Big Red, Red Monkey, Big Red Man, Red, Man-Beast, Mane, One Hell of a Superhero, The Guy That's Going to Bring About the End of the World, Lonely Hero, Agent Hellboy, H.B.
Abilities	Superhuman strength, endurance, stamina, durability, and longevity; Accelerated healing; Extensive knowledge of the supernatural and paranormal; Expert investigator; Right Hand of Doom (which serves as the key to the End of the World); Innate capability to comprehend magical languages; Immunity to fire and lightning; Skilled hand-to-hand combat;

Hellboy is a fictional superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossovers. The character has been adapted into three live-action feature films – two starring Ron Perlman in 2004 and 2008 in the title role, and one in 2019 which starred David Harbour, as well as two straight-to-DVD animated films, again starring Perlman, and three video games – Asylum Seeker, The Science of Evil, and as a playable character in Injustice 2.

A well-meaning half-Demon (or Cambion) whose true name is Anung Un Rama ("and upon his brow is set a crown of flame"), Hellboy was summoned from Hell to Earth as a baby by Nazi occultists (spawning his hatred for the Third Reich). He appeared in the ruins of an old church in the Outer Hebrides in front of a team assembled by the Allied Forces; among them, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, who formed the United States Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). In time, Hellboy grew to be a large, muscular, red-skinned ape-like man with a tail, horns (which he files off, leaving behind circular stumps on his forehead that resemble goggles), cloven hooves, and an oversized right hand made of stone (the "Right Hand of Doom"). He has been described as smelling of dry-roasted peanuts. Although a bit gruff, he shows none of the malevolence thought to be intrinsic to classical demons and has an ironic sense of humor. This is said to be because of his upbringing under Professor Bruttenholm, who raised him as a normal boy.

Hellboy works for the B.P.R.D., an international non-governmental agency, and for himself against dark forces including Nazis and witches, in a series of tales that have their roots in folklore, pulp magazines, vintage adventure, Lovecraftian horror and horror fiction. In earlier stories, he is identified as the "World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator".

Fictional character biography

Hellboy, or "Anung Un Rama" as he was called, was conceived on October 5,[1] 1574, the day his birth-mother, Sarah Hughes, a human woman, was on her deathbed. In life, Sarah was a witch who gained her powers from being a consort of the archdemon Azzael, an Archduke of Hell and Hellboy's "biological" father. Taking Sarah's body to hell when she attempted to repent on her deathbed within a church in East Bromwich, England, Azzael burned her away so their child would be born, and chopped off the newborn's right hand to replace it with the "Right Hand of Doom", a relic tied to the Ogdru Jahad. When the other princes of Hell learned of his actions, Azzael sent his half-demon child away while he was stripped of his powers and imprisoned in ice (like Lucifer in Dante's Divine Comedy).

The child is eventually summoned to Earth in the final months of World War II by the "Mad Monk" Grigori Rasputin on Tarmagant Island, off the coast of Scotland, having been commissioned by the Nazis to change the tide of a losing war ("Project Ragna Rok"). As a direct result of this rite, the child appears on Earth in a fireball at what remains of the ruined Bromwich Church on December 23, 1944. Proving not to be a devil, in the traditional sense, but a devil-like creature, the child was dubbed "Hellboy" by Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm.[2]

Taken by the United States Armed Forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico, Hellboy is raised by Professor Bruttenholm in a normal Catholic home environment, and the United States Army where he is introduced to the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD), a private organization dedicated to combating occult threats. Due to the success of his first mission in 1952, Hellboy is granted "honorary human" status by the United Nations and becomes a member of the BPRD as the "world's greatest paranormal investigator".[3] As such, Hellboy interacts regularly with humans, primarily law enforcement officials, the military, Catholic clergy, and various "scholars of the weird", most of whom are not presented as overtly reacting to his strange appearance.

As an adult, having matured physically within the years yet aging slowly mentally with a teenage mind, Hellboy becomes the primary agent for the BPRD, alongside other human and quasi-human agents that include Kate Corrigan, a professor of folklore at New York University; Abe Sapien, an amphibian humanoid (Ichthyo sapiens); and Liz Sherman, a young pyrokinetic. Things change dramatically for Hellboy during the events of Seed of Destruction when he searches for Professor Bruttenholm after he disappears during an expedition in the Arctic. He finds his adopted father only to witness his death at the hands of a Lovecraftian frog monster. The search takes Hellboy, Abe, and Liz to the Cavendish Hall mansion, which is a trap established by Rasputin to lure Hellboy into an embrace of his own "destiny", with the assistance of Sadu-Hem; one of the spawn of the Ogdru Jahad. Controlled by the spirit of one of the ancestral Cavendish men, Abe impales Rasputin. Liz's firestorm then incinerates Rasputin's body alongside Sadu-Hem's and destroys Cavendish Hall. Soon after, during a visit to Bromwich Church, Hellboy gets a glimpse of his conception 300+ years ago and learns he has two human half-siblings; a nun and a priest whose spirits haunt the church after their deaths, attempting to stop Azzael from claiming Sarah.

During the events of Hellboy: Wake the Devil, Hellboy's journey of self-discovery leads him to Romania to investigate the theft of an ancient box containing the corpse of Vladimir Giurescu, a Napoleonic officer who was, in fact, a vampire before he was "killed" on the order of a fearful Adolf Hitler. The culprit of the theft is revealed to be Ilsa Haupstein, one of the surviving members of Project Ragna Rok, who was revived from suspended animation and then aided in Giurescu's resurrection. Finding Castle Giurescu after splitting up with the other search groups, Hellboy learns that the source of Giurescu's rebirth is the ancient goddess Hecate. Though Hellboy destroys Hecate's original body, he faces her again after Rasputin unintentionally provides her with Ilsa's iron-maiden encased body. Hecate swallows Hellboy, but he returns to his own reality after he denounces the dark purpose he was born to perform.

Hellboy later learns that Liz is dying after losing her powers when she accidentally revived a homunculus while searching another location for Giurescu, finding Roger in the events of Hellboy: Almost Colossus as he convinces the homunculus to save Liz's life. Following the events of Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom, gaining insight about his stone hand and being referenced as a harbinger of the Apocalypse, Hellboy is accompanied by Abe to hunt down the warlock Igor Bromhead in Box Full of Evil. But it turned out to be a trap conducted by Bromhead and the demon Ualac to capture Hellboy, using his True Name, Anung Un Rama, to restrain him, so that the latter can claim Hellboy's normally invisible Crown of the Apocalypse to increase their power. But this act, however, proves to be counter-productive, as it allows Hellboy to no longer be controlled by his true name, Anung Un Rama (as one of the translations of this name is, lit. "and upon his brow is set a crown of flame"; with the theft of his crown, the name is no longer accurate), and he kills Ualac's mortal body before the demon and the crown is taken to Hell by the archdemon, Astaroth, who is later revealed to be Hellboy's paternal uncle.

In the aftermath of Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, assisted by the ghost of Lobster Johnson, Roger, and Abe, a disillusioned Hellboy resigns from the Bureau before it later gains new agents in Johann Kraus, the spirit of a German medium kept in a containment suit; and Captain Ben Daimio, a US Marine Commando that became an Olmec were-jaguar. From there, Hellboy decides to find out the truth of his existence once and for all. But, as revealed in Hellboy: Strange Places, Hellboy ends up being stranded on an island where he inadvertently resurrected an ancient mystic who gained knowledge of the secret history of the creation of Ogdru Jahad and the Right Hand of Doom.

6 years later, as Hellboy: Darkness Calls opens, Hellboy's search takes him to England where he finds himself in the middle of a power vacuum caused by Bromhead incapacitating Hecate in Italy. Refusing to serve the witches as their king, Hellboy ends up in the dimension of Baba Yaga, a witch whom he encountered in the past and happens to be an ally of Rasputin's. Managing to defeat Baba Yaga's champion Koshchei, Hellboy returns to his reality and is led to Bromhead after he became monstrous and in agony from his attempt to take Hecate's powers for his own. Hellboy gives Bromhead a merciful death before returning to England during the events of Hellboy: The Wild Hunt where he encounters Alice Monaghan, a young woman he saved as a baby from a fairy named Gruagach who has revived the lunatic sorceress Nimue to fill the void left by Hecate.

During that time, Hellboy encounters the spirit of Morgana le Fay who reveals to Hellboy both the names of his parents and that Sarah Hughes was her descendant, which names Hellboy as the last living heir to Arthur Pendragon and the rightful king of England.[4] But as he also learns from Astaroth that he is destined to kill Satan and become the new King of Hell, Hellboy is reluctant to wield Excalibur (which in his hands becomes a flaming sword) and the army of undead British nobility amassed to face Nimue's army. Therefore, enlisting Baba Yaga's assistance with his eye as payment for the injury he did to her in their first meeting, Hellboy decides to face Nimue one-on-one in the events of Hellboy: The Storm and the Fury. But in the aftermath of his battle with Nimue, who was possessed by Ogdru Jahad at the time, Hellboy is killed by the witch in her final moments. As revealed in Hellboy in Hell, Hellboy ends up trapped in Hell, where he encounters what's left of his demonic kin and the souls of the damned, and ultimately comes to terms with the destiny he has been shrugging off his whole life. Hellboy later returns in the mini-series BPRD: The Devil You Know, revived and joining Liz and Abe in the final arc of the series. After defeating Rasputin again, he and Hecate see the fall of the Ogdru Jahad and get back the Right Hand of Doom from the Osiris Club, killing them. Despite their efforts, however, Ragnarok is fulfilled and most of humanity is destroyed. In the end, Hellboy and Hecate fuse together to create a new world on Earth.

Powers and abilities

Afforded by his demonic heritage as well as extensive physical training and bodybuilding, Hellboy possesses superhuman strength that exceeds the 1-ton base limit, endurance, a degree of resistance to injury, and a healing factor that allows him to heal quickly from virtually all bodily injuries as well as renders him immune to all diseases. He also has the innate ability to comprehend ancient and magical languages. The extent of his strength is unclear, but he has torn down a large tree and hurled it at an opponent and has lifted massive stones. He has also picked up and thrown opponents weighing at least four to five hundred pounds. Hellboy has a high degree of resilience to injury. He can withstand powerful blows that would severely injure or kill a human. He survived being shot many times in the chest with an MG 42 machine gun before destroying it.[5] He has survived being impaled through the chest with a sword, severe werewolf mauling, being beaten unconscious with heavy iron tongs, falling from extreme heights, being crushed by boulders, and more. In the film version, it is stated that Hellboy is immune to all forms of fire and burns, including Liz Sherman's flames, and electrocution. Despite his ability to quickly recover from seemingly mortal wounds, he is far from invulnerable and can be injured or bloodied by conventional weapons. Curiously in certain instances, the spilling of Hellboy's blood causes lilies to sprout - a supernatural indicator of his true good nature. This unique property comes into play even at the culmination of Ragnarok, where Hecate spills Hellboy's blood onto the incinerated Earth to breathe life back into it. It is revealed to Baba Yaga by the dead Russian nobility that Hellboy may not be slain even through supernatural means and that he appears to be as deathless as her warrior, Koschei the Deathless.[6] In the films, Hellboy has shown skill in necromancy, animating a man's dead body so that it could give him directions. This also happened in the 2019 reboot, where Hellboy is able to raise an entire army of the dead after embracing his power as Anung Un Rama.

Hellboy ages quite differently from human beings. In the story Pancakes he is now two-years old but appears to be somewhere between 6 and 10 in human years old. In Nature of the Beast, set in 1954, the ten-year-old Hellboy appears fully grown. His rapid physical maturation is in contrast to his actual rate of aging, however, which seems to be much slower than humans. Throughout the sixty-year span of time depicted in the comics, he does not age beyond the plateau of physical maturity. This mystical aging process is similar to the other demons and supernatural beings that populate Hellboy's world. The lifespan of a demon (or half-demon, as Hellboy's mother was human) is left undefined within the comics and seems to range from decades to many thousands of years. In the films, Hellboy's aging process is described by BRPD as "reverse dog years".

In addition to his natural physical abilities, Hellboy carries a variety of items in his utility belt and jacket that can be used against various supernatural forces. He has been known to carry holy relics, horseshoes, various herbs, and hand grenades. Though he commonly carries an oversized revolver, which in the Guillermo del Toro films was named the "Good Samaritan", and which was forged from the recycled iron from a church bell; Hellboy freely admits, however, to being a lousy shot with it, and often favors fighting hand-to-hand, preferring to use short-ranged physical weapons like swords, spears, and his massive stone fist over firearms. Hellboy's lack of formal combat training and education is compensated for by his decades of experience as a paranormal investigator, though encounters with unfamiliar threats have often forced him to resort to improvisation and using his wits.

Right Hand of Doom

As revealed in Strange Places, Hellboy's right hand was originally the right hand of Anum, one of the Watcher angels that watched over the burgeoning Earth and created the Ogdru Jahad. After sealing the Ogdru Jahad away, Anum was destroyed by his fellow spirits. Only his right hand remained intact as it was kept and preserved by the Hyperboreans, the first race of man. The Right Hand of Doom eventually ended up in the possession of Azzael before he grafted it onto the newborn Hellboy.

As the hand which created and bound the Ogdru Jahad, it is also the key that will "loose and command" them; in other words, it is a catalyst that will bring about Ragnarok. The comic books themselves never mention how the Right Hand of Doom would actually perform these tasks; they only explain this is the case and someone or something intends to do it, with or without Hellboy's consent. The film shows it working as a key: being turned twice in a special obelisk secured by Rasputin would release the Ogdru Jahad. Astaroth and others also told of how the Hand contains the power to awaken the great Army of Hell, an army powerful enough to shatter the boundaries between Heaven, Hell and Earth for the wielder to rule all of Creation. This prophecy had never come to pass thanks to Hellboy's consistent refusal to embrace his destiny. It is made clear it is not necessary for the arm to be attached to Hellboy to perform its duties. It has been suggested if Hellboy dies while the Hand is attached to him, it would become useless. He has, therefore, concluded the only way to prevent its falling into the wrong hands is to keep and protect it.

Concept and creation

Hellboy originated in 1991 with a drawing Mike Mignola did for a Great Salt Lake Comic-Con promotional pamphlet of a demon with the name "Hell Boy" written on his belt. Mignola had initially no intention of doing anything serious with the concept, but eventually decided he liked the name.[7]

Later, Mignola became interested in doing a creator-owned comic, as he felt it made more sense to create his own characters for the stories he wanted to tell, rather than trying to shoehorn existing characters into these stories. Mignola elaborated, "The kinds of stories I wanted to do I had in mind before I created Hellboy. It's not like I created Hellboy and said, 'Hey, now what does this guy do?' I knew the kinds of stories I wanted to do, but just needed a main guy." He initially created Hellboy as part of a team of five, but scrapped this idea when he realized he could not think of any team names that he liked.[7]

Much like other American comic book superheroes, such as Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Daredevil, and Spawn, Hellboy is constantly tormented by the knowledge of his past. One example being in Wake the Devil where he describes his mindset since the aftermath of Seed of Destruction by saying, "I like not knowing. I've gotten by for fifty-two years without knowing. I sleep good not knowing."

Publication history

Before Hellboy was published independently at Dark Horse Comics, the concept was initially pitched to a board of directors for DC Comics, who loved it, but did not like the idea of it involving "Hell".[8]

The early stories were conceived and drawn by Mignola with a script written by John Byrne and some later stories have been crafted by creators other than Mignola, including Christopher Golden, Guy Davis, Ryan Sook, and Duncan Fegredo. The increasing commitments from the Hellboy franchise meant that 2008 one-shot In the Chapel of Moloch was the first Hellboy comic Mignola had provided the script and art for since The Island in 2005.[9]

Issues

Hellboy has an internal numbering on the inside cover of its issues. Below are the stories listed by their internal numbering for the comics.

Issue	Title	Date	Story	Art	Colors	Cover	Collection	Notes
#1	Seed of Destruction	March, 1994	Mike Mignola (story) John Byrne (script)	Mike Mignola	Mark Chiarello	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 1: Seed of Destruction Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1
#2		April, 1994
#3		May, 1994
#4		June, 1994
#5	The Wolves of Saint August	November, 1995	Mike Mignola		James Sinclair	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2	The Wolves of Saint August originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents. It is reprinted and expanded here.
#6	The Corpse and the Iron Shoes	January, 1996	Mike Mignola		Matthew Hollingsworth and James Sinclair	Mike Mignola		The Corpse originally appeared in the Advance Comics catalog. It is reprinted here.
#7	Wake the Devil	June, 1996	Mike Mignola		James Sinclair	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 2: Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1
#8		July, 1996
#9		August, 1996
#10		September, 1996
#11		October, 1996
#12	Almost Colossus	July 30, 1997	Mike Mignola		James Sinclair	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2
#13	Almost Colossus	June 25, 1997	Mike Mignola		James Sinclair	Mike Mignola
#14	A Christmas Underground (in the Hellboy Christmas Special)	December 3, 1997	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Gary Gianni		This was a one-shot anthology featuring the work of Mike Mignola, Gary Gianni and Steve Purcell.
#15	Box Full of Evil	August 11, 1999	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2
#16	Box Full of Evil	September 8, 1999	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#17	Conqueror Worm	May 9, 2001	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 5: Conqueror Worm Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3
#18		June 13, 2001
#19		July 11, 2001
#20		August 8, 2001
#21	The Third Wish	July 24, 2002	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 6: Strange Places Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3
#22	The Third Wish	August 21, 2002	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#23	The Island	June 22, 2005	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#24	The Island	July 27, 2005	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#25	Makoma	February 1, 2006	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben with Mike Mignola	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4
#26	Makoma	March 1, 2006	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben with Mike Mignola	Dave Stewart	Richard Corben
#27	Darkness Calls	May 2, 2007	Mike Mignola	Duncan Fegredo	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 8: Darkness Calls Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5
#28		May 30, 2007
#29		June 27, 2007
#30		July 25, 2007
#31		August 29, 2007
#32		November 7, 2007
—	They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships	August, 2007	Mike Mignola and Joshua Dysart	Jason Shawn Alexander	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4	Co-published by Konami to promote the Hellboy: The Science of Evil video game
#33	The Crooked Man	July 2, 2008	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben	Dave Stewart	Richard Corben	Hellboy – Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4
#34		August 13, 2008
#35		September 24, 2008
#36	In the Chapel of Moloch	October 29, 2008	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#37	The Wild Hunt	December 3, 2008	Mike Mignola	Duncan Fegredo	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5
#38		January 7, 2009						BACKUP STORY "How Koshchei Became Deathless" STORY Mike Mignola ART Guy Davis
#39		February 11, 2009
#40		March 4, 2009						BACKUP STORY "Baba Yaga's Feast" STORY Mike Mignola ART Guy Davis
#41		August 12, 2009						Features a MonsterMen backup by Gary Gianni. Not a part of the Hellboy Universe.
#42		September 9, 2009
#43		October 14, 2009						BACKUP STORY "The Burial of Katharine Baker" STORY Scott Allie ART Patric Reynolds
#44		November 11, 2009
#45	The Bride of Hell	December 23, 2009	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6
#46	Hellboy in Mexico	May 5, 2010	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben	Dave Stewart	Richard Corben Mike Mignola (variant)
#47	The Storm	July 7, 2010	Mike Mignola	Duncan Fegredo	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6
#48		August 4, 2010
#49		September 1, 2010
#50	Double Feature of Evil	November 17, 2010	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola Richard Corben (variant)	Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6
#51	The Sleeping and the Dead	December 29, 2010	Mike Mignola	Scott Hampton	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola Scott Hampton (variant)
#52	The Sleeping and the Dead	February 2, 2011	Mike Mignola	Scott Hampton	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#53	Buster Oakley Gets His Wish	April 13, 2011	Mike Mignola	Kevin Nowlan	Kevin Nowlan Dave Stewart (variant cover)	Kevin Nowlan Mike Mignola (variant)
#54	Being Human	May 11, 2011	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben	Dave Stewart	Richard Corben	B.P.R.D.: Being Human
#55	The Fury	June 1, 2011	Mike Mignola	Duncan Fegredo	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola Francesco Francavilla (variant)	Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6
#56		July 13, 2011				Mike Mignola
#57		August 10, 2011				Mike Mignola
—	Hellboy Winter Special (2016)	January 27, 2016	"Broken Vessels"		Dave Stewart	Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant)	B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know – Volume 1: Messiah
			Mike Mignola and Scott Allie	Tim Sale			B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know – Volume 1: Messiah
			"Wandering Souls"				Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953
			Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Michael Walsh			Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953
			"Mood Swings"
			Chelsea Cain	Michael Avon Oeming
			"Kung Pao Lobster"					Out-of-continuity story
			Dean Rankine					Out-of-continuity story
—	Hellboy Winter Special (2017)	January 25, 2017	"The Great Blizzard"			Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant)
			Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Christopher Mitten	Dave Stewart
			"God Rest Ye Merry"				The Visitor: How & Why He Stayed
			Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Paul Grist	Bill Crabtree		The Visitor: How & Why He Stayed
			"The Last Witch of Fairfield"
			Mike Mignola and Scott Allie	Sebastián Fiumara	Dave Stewart
—	Krampusnacht	December 20, 2017	Mike Mignola	Adam Hughes	Dave Stewart	Adam Hughes Mike Mignola (variant)	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others
—	Hellboy Winter Special (2018)	December 12, 2018	"Happy New Year, Ava Galluci"			Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant)
			Mike Mignola	Ben Stenbeck	Dave Stewart
			"Lost Ones"				B.P.R.D.: Vampire (2nd Edition)
			Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá		Dave Stewart		B.P.R.D.: Vampire (2nd Edition)
			"The Empty Chair"
			Tonci Zonjic
—	Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death	May 29, 2019	Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Mike Norton	Dave Stewart	Paolo Rivera	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956	BACKUP STORY "Down Mexico Way" STORY Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson ART Paul Grist COLORS Bill Crabtree

Issues: Hellboy in Hell

Hellboy in Hell is a finished series with its own numbering.

Issue	Title	Date	Story & Art	Colors	Cover	Collection
#1	The Descent	December 5, 2012	Mike Mignola	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy in Hell – Volume 1: The Descent Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell
#2	Pandemonium	January 2, 2013
#3	Family Ties	February 6, 2013
#4	Death Riding an Elephant	March 6, 2013
#5	The Three Gold Whips	December 4, 2013
#6	The Death Card	May 14, 2014				Hellboy in Hell – Volume 2: The Death Card Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell
#7	The Hounds of Pluto	August 26, 2015
#8	The Hounds of Pluto	September 23, 2015
#9	The Spanish Bride	May 4, 2016
#10	For Whom the Bell Tolls	June 1, 2016

Issues: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. is an ongoing series of miniseries.

Issue	Title	Date	Story	Art	Colors	Cover	Collection
#1	1952	December 3, 2014	Mike Mignola and John Arcudi	Alex Maleev	Dave Stewart	Alex Maleev Mike Mignola (variant)	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952
#2		January 7, 2015				Alex Maleev
#3		February 4, 2015
#4		March 4, 2015
#5		April 1, 2015
#6	The Phantom Hand & The Kelpie	October 28, 2015	Mike Mignola	Ben Stenbeck	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953
#7	The Witch Tree & Rawhead and Bloody Bones	November 25, 2015	Mike Mignola	Ben Stenbeck		Mike Mignola
#8	Beyond the Fences	February 24, 2016	Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks)		Paolo Rivera
#9		March 23, 2016
#10		April 27, 2016
#11	The Black Sun	September 21, 2016	Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Stephen Green	Dave Stewart	Mike Huddleston	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954
#12	The Black Sun	October 19, 2016		Stephen Green
#13	The Unreasoning Beast	November 23, 2016		Patric Reynolds
#14	Ghost Moon	March 8, 2017		Brian Churilla
#15	Ghost Moon	April 12, 2017		Brian Churilla
#16	Secret Nature	August 9, 2017	Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Shawn Martinbrough	Dave Stewart	Shawn Martinbrough	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955
#17	Occult Intelligence	September 13, 2017		Brian Churilla		Paolo Rivera
#18		October 11, 2017
#19		November 8, 2017
#20	Burning Season	February 21, 2018		Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks)
#21	1956	November 28, 2018	Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Yishan Li Mike Norton and Michael Avon Oeming	Dave Stewart	Dave Johnson	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956
#22		December 26, 2019
#23		January 23, 2019
#24		February 27, 2019
#25		March 27, 2019
—	The Beast of Vargu	June 19, 2019	Mike Mignola	Duncan Fegredo	Dave Stewart	Duncan Fegredo Mike Mignola (variant)	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others
—	Saturn Returns	August 21, 2019	Mike Mignola and Scott Allie	Christopher Mitten	Brennan Wagner	Christopher Mitten
		September 18, 2019
		October 23, 2019
—	Long Night at Goloski Station	October 30, 2019	Mike Mignola	Matt Smith	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb
—	The Return of Effie Kolb	February 19, 2020	Mike Mignola	Zach Howard	Dave Stewart	Zach Howard
—	The Return of Effie Kolb	October 28, 2020	Mike Mignola	Zach Howard	Dave Stewart	Zach Howard
—	The Seven Wives Club	November 11, 2020	Mike Mignola	Adam Hughes	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
—	Her Fatal Hour & The Sending	December 2, 2020	Mike Mignola	Tiernen Trevallion	Dave Stewart	Tiernen Trevallion
—	The Secret of Chesbro House	July xx, 2021	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Shawn McManus	Dave Stewart	Shawn McManus	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House
—	The Secret of Chesbro House	August 11, 2021	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Shawn McManus	Dave Stewart	Shawn McManus	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House
—	1957- Family Ties	September 15, 2021	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Laurence Campbell	Dave Stewart	Laurence Campbell	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957
—	1957- Forgotten Lives	November 24, 2021	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Steven Green	Dave Stewart	Laurence Campbell
—	1957- Falling Sky	May 04, 2022	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Shawn Martinbrough	Dave Stewart	Laurence Campbell
—	Night of the Cyclops	May 25, 2022	Mike Mignola, Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House
—	Old Man Whittier	June 22, 2022	Mike Mignola	Gabriel Hernández Walta	Dave Stewart	Gabriel Hernández Walta
—	Time is a River	July 20, 2022	Mike Mignola	Márk László	Dave Stewart	Márk László
—	1957- Fearful Symmetry	February 8, 2023	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Alison Sampson	Dave Stewart	Laurence Campbell	*Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957
—	1957- From Below	March 8, 2023	Mike Mignola, Chris Robertson	Mike Norton	Dave Stewart	Laurence Campbell	*Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957

Original Graphic Novels: Hellboy

Special stories were created for hardcover original graphic novels.

Title	Story	Art	Colors	Cover	Published	ISBN
House of the Living Dead	Mike Mignola	Richard Corben	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	November 2, 2011	9781595827579
The Midnight Circus	Mike Mignola	Duncan Fegredo			October 23, 2013	9781616552381
Into the Silent Sea	Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni	Gary Gianni			April 19, 2017	9781506701431

One-shots

Hellboy Winter Special (2016) [10]
Hellboy Winter Special 2017 [11]
Hellboy Winter Special 2018 [12]
Hellboy Winter Special (2019) [13]
Hellboy – Krampusnacht [14]
Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson – The Ring of Death [15]

Trade paperbacks: Hellboy

All in-continuity Hellboy comics are collected in trade paperbacks.

Number	Title	Collects	Published	ISBN
1	Seed of Destruction	Seed of Destruction (4-issue miniseries) Mike Mignola's Hellboy (promo from San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2) Mike Mignola's Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator (promo from Comics Buyer's Guide #1070)	Original Cover: October 1, 1994	9781569713167
			Hardcover Limited Edition: March 1, 1995	9781569710517
			Standardized cover: February 4, 2004	9781593070946
2	Wake the Devil	Wake the Devil (5-issue miniseries)	Original Cover: June 11, 1997	9781569712269
2	Wake the Devil	Wake the Devil (5-issue miniseries)	Standardized cover: February 4, 2004	9781593070953
3	The Chained Coffin and Others	The Corpse (serialized short) The Iron Shoes (short story) The Baba Yaga (short story) A Christmas Underground (from the Hellboy Christmas Special) The Chained Coffin (from Dark Horse Presents #100–2) The Wolves of Saint August (from Dark Horse Presents #88–91) Almost Colossus (2-issue miniseries)	Original Cover: August 5, 1998	9781569713495
3	The Chained Coffin and Others		Standardized cover: February 4, 2004	9781593070915
4	The Right Hand of Doom	Pancakes (short story) The Nature of the Beast (from Dark Horse Presents #151) King Vold (short story) Heads (short story) Goodbye, Mister Tod (short story) The Vârcolac (serialized short) The Right Hand of Doom (short story) Box Full of Evil (2-issue miniseries)	Original Cover: April 26, 2000	9781569714898
4	The Right Hand of Doom		Standardized cover: February 4, 2004	9781593070939
5	Conqueror Worm	Conqueror Worm (4-issue miniseries)	Original Cover: February 27, 2002	9781569716991
5	Conqueror Worm	Conqueror Worm (4-issue miniseries)	Standardized cover: February 4, 2004	9781593070922
6	Strange Places	The Third Wish (2-issue miniseries) The Island (2-issue miniseries)	April 26, 2006	9781593074753
7	The Troll Witch and Others	The Penanggalan (short story) The Hydra and The Lion (short story) The Troll-Witch (short story) Dr. Carp's Experiment (short story) The Ghoul (short story) The Vampire of Prague (short story) Makoma (2-issue miniseries)	October 3, 2007	9781593078607
8	Darkness Calls	Darkness Calls (6-issue miniseries)	May 16, 2008	9781593078966
9	The Wild Hunt	The Wild Hunt (8-issue miniseries)	March 10, 2010	9781595824318
10	The Crooked Man and Others	The Crooked Man (3-issue miniseries) They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships (one shot) In the Chapel of Moloch (one shot) The Mole (short story)	June 9, 2010	9781595824776
11	The Bride of Hell and Others	Hellboy in Mexico (one shot) Double Feature of Evil (one shot) The Sleeping and the Dead (2-issue miniseries) The Bride of Hell (one shot) The Whittier Legacy (short story) Buster Oakley Gets His Wish (one shot)	October 5, 2011	9781595827401
12	The Storm and the Fury	The Storm (3-issue miniseries) The Fury (3-issue miniseries)	March 7, 2012	9781595828279
—	Hellboy in Mexico	Hellboy in Mexico (one shot) House of the Living Dead (original graphic novel) Hellboy versus the Aztec Mummy (short story) Hellboy Gets Married (short story) The Coffin Man (short story) The Coffin Man 2: The Rematch (short story)	April 13, 2016	9781616558970

Trade paperbacks: Hellboy in Hell

All Hellboy in Hell comics are collected in trade paperbacks.

Number	Title	Collects	Published	ISBN
1	The Descent[16]	Hellboy in Hell #1–5	May 14, 2014	9781616554446
2	The Death Card	Hellboy in Hell #6–10 The Exorcist of Vorsk (short story)	October 5, 2016	9781506701134

Trade paperbacks: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.

All Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. comics are collected in trade paperbacks.

Title	Collects	Published	ISBN
1952	1952 (5-issue arc)	August 12, 2015	9781616556600
1953	The Phantom Hand (short story) Rawhead and Bloody Bones (short story) The Witch Tree (short story) The Kelpie (short story) Wandering Souls (short story) Beyond the Fences (3-issue arc)	August 10, 2016	9781616559670
1954	The Mirror (short story) Black Sun (2-issue arc) The Unreasoning Beast (one shot) Ghost Moon (2-issue arc)	January 10, 2018	9781506702070
1955	Secret Nature (one shot) Occult Intelligence (3-issue arc) Burning Season (one shot)	June 6, 2018	9781506705316
1956	1956 (5-issue arc) Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death (one shot)	September 17, 2019[17]	9781506711058
The Beast of Vargu and Others	The Beast of Vargu and Others (one shot) Saturn Returns (3-issue arc) Krampusnacht (one shot) Return of the Lambton Worm (short story)	June 24, 2020[18]	9781506711300
The Return of Effie Kolb and Others	Her Fatal Hour (short story) The Sending (short story) Long Night at Goloski Station (one shot) The Return of Effie Kolb (2-issue arc) The Seven Wives Club (one shot)	November 9, 2022[19]	9781506731360
1957	Falling Sky (one shot) Family Ties (one shot) Forgotten Lives (one shot) Fearful Symmetry (one shot) From Below (one shot) Happy New Year, Ava Galluci (short story)	July 26, 2023[20]	9781506728452

Library editions

These editions collect the stories in the size they were originally drawn.

Volume	Collects	Published	ISBN
1	Seed of Destruction Wake the Devil	May 7, 2008	9781593079109
2	The Chained Coffin and Others The Right Hand of Doom	October 8, 2008	9781593079895
3	Conqueror Worm Strange Places	September 23, 2009	9781595823526
4	The Crooked Man and Others The Troll Witch and Others	June 15, 2011	9781595826589
5	Darkness Calls The Wild Hunt	July 11, 2012	9781595828866
6	The Storm and the Fury The Bride of Hell and Others	June 12, 2013	9781616551339
Hellboy in Hell	The Descent The Death Card The Magician and the Snake	October 4, 2017	9781506703633

Omnibus editions

These editions collect the complete Hellboy series in chronological order.

Volume	Collects	Published	ISBN
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction	Seed of Destruction (4-issue miniseries) Wake the Devil (5-issue miniseries) The Wolves of St August (short story) The Chained Coffin (short story) Almost Colossus (2-issue miniseries)	May 9, 2018	9781506706665
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places	Conqueror Worm (4-issue miniseries) The Third Wish (2-issue miniseries) The Island (2-issue miniseries) Into the Silent Sea (OGN) The Right Hand of Doom (short story) Box Full of Evil (short story) Being Human (short story)	June 20, 2018	9781506706672
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3: The Wild Hunt	Darkness Calls (6-issue miniseries) The Wild Hunt (8-issue miniseries) The Storm (3-issue miniseries) The Fury (3-issue miniseries) The Mole (short story)	July 18, 2018	9781506706689
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy in Hell	The Descent (Hellboy in Hell #1–4) The Three Gold Whips (Hellboy in Hell #5) The Death Card (Hellboy in Hell #6) The Hounds of Pluto (Hellboy in Hell #7–8) The Spanish Bride (Hellboy in Hell #9) For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hellboy in Hell #10) The Exorcist of Vorsk (short story) The Magician and the Snake (short story)	September 5, 2018	9781506707495

Volume	Collects	Published	ISBN
Complete Short Stories, Volume 1	The Corpse (short story) The Iron Shoes (short story) Pancakes (short story) The Nature of the Beast (short story) King Vold (short story) The Penanggalan (short story) The Crooked Man (3-issue miniseries) Hellboy in Mexico (one shot) Double Feature of Evil (one shot) Hellboy versus the Aztec Mummy (short story) Hellboy Gets Married (short story) The Coffin Man (short story) The Coffin Man 2: The Rematch (short story) The Midnight Circus (OGN) House of the Living Dead (OGN)	June 5, 2018	9781506706641
Complete Short Stories, Volume 2	The Hydra and the Lion (short story) The Troll Witch (short story) The Baba Yaga (short story) The Sleeping and the Dead (short story) Heads (short story) Goodbye Mister Tod (short story) The Vârcolac (short story) The Vampire of Prague (short story) The Bride of Hell (one shot) The Whittier Legacy (short story) Buster Oakley Gets His Wish (one shot) They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships (one shot) A Christmas Underground (short story) Dr. Carp's Experiment (short story) The Ghoul (short story) In the Chapel of Moloch (one shot) Makoma (2-issue miniseries)	August 28, 2018	9781506706658

Other trade paperbacks

Hellboy: Weird Tales, Volume 1 (February 2003) – Cover by Mike Mignola. Collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #1–4. ISBN 978-1-56971-622-9.
Hellboy: Weird Tales, Volume 2 (October 2004) – Cover by Mike Mignola. Collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #5–8. ISBN 978-1-56971-953-4.
Hellboy Junior (January 2004) – Written by Mike Mignola, Bill Wray, et al. Collects Hellboy Junior Halloween Special, Hellboy Junior #1–2, plus original material. ISBN 978-1-56971-862-9.
Ghost/Hellboy Special (June 1997) – Written by Mike Mignola. Collects Ghost/Hellboy #1–2. ISBN 978-1-56971-273-3.
Savage Dragon/Hellboy (2002) – Cover by Mike Mignola. Collects Savage Dragon #34–35.
The Art of Hellboy (March 2003) – Written by Mike Mignola. Dark Horse Books. ISBN 1-56971-910-1.
Hellboy: The Companion (May 2008) – Written by Steve Weiner, Jason Hall. Dark Horse Books. ISBN 978-1-59307-655-9.
Hellboy: Masks and Monsters (October 2010) – Written by Mike Mignola, James Robinson, Scott Benefiel, Jasen Rodriguez. Collects Batman/Hellboy/Starman #1–2, Ghost/Hellboy #1–2. Dark Horse Books. ISBN 1-59582-567-3.

Other appearances

Beyond the Hellboy comic and its associated spinoffs, Hellboy has made appearances in other publications:

Great Salt Lake Comic-Con pamphlet

The character name "Hell Boy" was included in a drawing by Mike Mignola of a demon character in a black and white illustration, with the later recognized name appearing on the demon's belt buckle. This image, accompanied by a short biography of Mike Mignola and his latest creation, appeared in the pamphlet in 1991. It is the first published mention of the later recognized name. This image was reprinted in The Art of Hellboy. This image was also used to create the “First Hellboy” statue by Mondo Tees, in both black and white and full color.

Dime Press

A prototype incarnation of Hellboy appeared on the cover of Dime Press #4 (Glamour International Production, 1993), an obscure Italian fanzine, with "Hellboy©Mignola 93" written at the bottom of the cover. The cover, illustrated by Mignola and by the Italian artist Nicola Mari, shows Hellboy in the act of attacking a "diabolic" version of the Italian SF comic book character Nathan Never (with bat wings and pointed tail). Mari at the time was one of the artists that worked on Nathan Never, and the first two years of the life of this comic were the main topic of the fanzine. With the exception of the cover, there is no other mention of Hellboy within the fanzine. The character shown was still in a draft stage, and although close to the final design of Hellboy, it had gray skin and an outfit not common to the character.

San Diego Comic-Con Comics

Mike Mignola's Hellboy by Mike Mignola and John Byrne featured the character's first full appearance, and was a four-page black-and-white story that had an approximately 1,500 book print run. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (August 1993) for distribution at the San Diego Comic-Con convention held in San Diego, California. It was also reprinted in The Comic's Buyers Guide #1069, along with an interview with creator Mike Mignola.[21]

Hellboy travels to an American ghost town, where he encounters a mangy mutt that transforms into Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian god of mummification.[22]

The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.[23]

Next Men

Hellboy makes a guest appearance in John Byrne's Next Men #21 (Dark Horse Comics, December 1993); this is the first American appearance in a full-color cameo.

Comics Buyer's Guide

Mike Mignola's Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator by Mike Mignola and John Byrne featured the character's next solo appearance. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in a special four-page mini-comic for distribution in Comics Buyer's Guide #1,070 (May 20, 1994).[24]

In the story Hellboy battles with the disembodied head of Nazi scientist Herman von Klempt and his puppet henchman Brutus the Gorilla to rescue a captive girl from the doctor's transference of nutrient fluids process.[22]

The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.[23]

Celebrate Diversity

Hi, My Name is Hellboy by Mike Mignola was a one-page panel ad that related the character's fictional origins. It was published by Diamond Comic Distributors in catalog supplement Celebrate Diversity collector's edition (October 1994).[25] The ad was collected in the trade paperback The Art of Hellboy.

The Dark Horse Book of...

The Dark Horse Book of... was the banner title given to a series of four one-shot hardcover comic book horror anthologies produced annually by Dark Horse Comics between 2004 and 2007. Each issue contained a Hellboy story — “Dr. Carp’s Experiment” (2004), “The Troll Witch” (2005), “The Ghoul” (2006), and “The Hydra and The Lion” (2007). All four stories were collected into the trade paperback Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others in 2007. The Dark Horse Book of... series itself was collected into The Dark Horse Book of Horror in 2017.

Hellboy: The First 20 Years was published on 1 April 2014.

In other media

Live-action films

Ron Perlman and David Harbour as Hellboy

Hellboy (2004)

The film was directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and starred Ron Perlman as Hellboy (the favorite of both del Toro and Mignola for the role), Selma Blair as Liz Sherman, Rupert Evans as FBI Special Agent John Myers (a character created for the film), John Hurt as Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, Doug Jones as Abe Sapien (voiced by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce), Karel Roden as Grigori Rasputin, and Jeffrey Tambor as FBI Senior Special Agent Tom Manning. The film depicts Hellboy as living at the BPRD with a dozen cats and limited access to the outside world, and considered an urban legend by the general populace.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

A sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was shot in Budapest by Guillermo del Toro and released in 2008, with Perlman and Blair returning.[26] Jones also returned as Abe Sapien (undubbed this time), and also in two other roles: The Angel of Death and The Chamberlain.[27] Revolution Studios had planned on making the film (which Columbia Pictures was to distribute), but the studio went out of business before filming. Universal Studios then picked it up. The plot is a shift to more folklore rather than action, with heavy European overtones. The character of Johann Kraus was added to the team, voiced by Seth MacFarlane. The character Roger the Homunculus was not, but he was written into the plot as a very prominent character in early drafts of the script. The character of Agent Myers from the first film does not return, his absence being explained by Liz remarking that Hellboy had him transferred to Antarctica out of jealousy. Hellboy also reveals himself to the outside world in this film, and Liz is revealed to be pregnant with his children, twins. On November 11, 2008, Hellboy II: The Golden Army was released on DVD.

Cancelled third film

A sequel for Hellboy II: The Golden Army was in development in 2009, entitled Hellboy III: Dark Worlds. Guillermo del Toro was slated to return as the film's director and writer. Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Seth MacFarlane, Selma Blair and Jeffrey Tambor were set to reprise their roles. In the sequel, Hellboy would live his normal life as a father for his two newborn twins with Liz Sherman, but also has to face an extremely powerful enemy who wishes to rule and bring the darkness upon Earth. In 2017, it was announced that the sequel was canceled due to the difficulty of funding the film, and a reboot would happen instead.

However, in July 2019, Perlman said that he would still love to finish the trilogy with del Toro, ignoring the reboot and that he thought it could happen if financing could be found.[28]

Hellboy (2019)

In May 2017, Mignola announced Millennium Media's plans for an R-rated reboot, at the time titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, with David Harbour as the titular character and Neil Marshall directing from a script by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden and Mignola.[29] The film draws inspiration from Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm and the Fury, and Hellboy in Mexico.[30][31] The film, later retitled as Hellboy, was released on April 12, 2019 to negative reviews.[32][33] It grossed $55.1 million against a $50 million production budget,[34] with several media outlets declaring it a box office bomb.[35][36][37] In 2022, Marshall decried the film, calling it the "worst profession experience" of his life due to creative control being taken from him by the producers and that the script was not salvageable, concluding that "there's nothing of me in that movie."[38]

Hellboy: The Crooked Man (TBA)

In February 2023, Millennium Media announced plans for another reboot titled Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the first in a potential series of films. Brian Taylor is to direct from a script by Mignola and Golden, based on the 2008 comic of the same name, with Jack Kesy as Hellboy.[39][40]

Animated films

On November 9, 2005, IDT Entertainment issued a press release[41] announcing that the company had licensed the rights to develop "animated content for television and home entertainment" based on the Hellboy comic. Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Selma Blair (Liz Sherman), Doug Jones (Abe Sapien) and John Hurt (Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm) have all voiced their respective characters. Actress Peri Gilpin joined the cast as Professor Kate Corrigan.

The first two 75-minute animated films, Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron, were aired on Cartoon Network before being released on DVD. The first one aired on October 28, 2006, and the second aired on March 17, 2007.

Both stories have much more in common with the comic book Hellboy rather than the film — Abe Sapien is not psychic, for example, and the artwork and color palette is derived more from Mignola's original artwork. The DVD of Sword of Storms was released on February 6, 2007; it contains documentary material, commentary, and a Hellboy comic, "Phantom Limbs". Blood and Iron similarly contains a comic called "The Yearning".

After the initial release, some stores included exclusive giveaways with copies of the Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron DVD:

Best Buy: A 7" Hellboy figure
Walmart: An 80-page digest titled The Judgment Bell
Transworld: A 64-page Hellboy Digest
Infinity: A Lobster Johnson magnet
Circuit City – A Hellboy "Bust-Up"

A "Hellboy 2 Pak" limited edition DVD set was released July 1, 2008, that contained both films and a 7" figure.

A third animated Hellboy film, The Phantom Claw, has been put on hold. Tad Stones, director and writer of the direct-to-video films, says the film will star Lobster Johnson and will have some familiar characters, but Abe and Liz will not be in the film (at least not as main characters).

Novels and anthologies

Christopher Golden has written several novels about the character, the first two of which, The Lost Army and The Bones of Giants, are part of the official Hellboy story canon. The events of both these novels are listed in the comic's official timeline featured in Hellboy: The Companion. In particular, the Golden-penned character of Anastasia Bransfield was also described in the companion, despite having never actually appeared in a comic.

Hellboy: The Lost Army (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 1997)
Hellboy: Odd Jobs (by editor Christopher Golden, writers include Stephen R. Bissette, Greg Rucka, Nancy A. Collins, and Poppy Z. Brite; with an introduction by Mike Mignola. Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, Inc., ISBN 1-56971-440-1, December 1999)
Hellboy: The Bones of Giants (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 2001)
Hellboy: Odder Jobs (by editor Christopher Golden, writers include Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, Charles de Lint, Graham Joyce, Sharyn McCrumb, James Cambias, and Richard Dean Starr, October 2004)
Hellboy: On Earth As It Is In Hell (written by Brian Hodge, cover by Mike Mignola, September 2005)
Hellboy: Unnatural Selection (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2006)
Hellboy: The God Machine (written by Thomas E. Sniegoski, cover by Mike Mignola, July 2006)
Hellboy: The Dragon Pool (written by Christopher Golden, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2007)
Hellboy: Emerald Hell (written by Tom Piccirilli, cover by Mike Mignola, February 2008)
Hellboy: The All-Seeing Eye (written by Mark Morris, cover by Mike Mignola, October 2008)
Hellboy: Oddest Jobs (by editor Christopher Golden, writers include Joe R. Lansdale, China Miéville, Barbara Hambly, Ken Bruen, Amber Benson, and Tad Williams, July 2008)
Hellboy: The Fire Wolves (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, April 2009)
Hellboy: The Ice Wolves (written by Mark Chadbourn, cover by Duncan Fegredo, September 2009)
Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors (2017)[42]

Video games

A Hellboy video game called Hellboy: Dogs of the Night, developed by Cryo Interactive, was released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows. It was ported to PlayStation as Hellboy: Asylum Seeker with David Gasman voicing Hellboy.

On April 6, 2005, Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro announced on his official site[43] that he had made a deal with the developer Konami to create a new Hellboy video game based on the film version of the character and his world, featuring new monsters, new villains, and a new storyline. Herman von Klempt and his war ape Kriegaffe #10 were slated to make appearances. On May 9, 2006, it was revealed that the Hellboy game would appear in the summer of 2007, on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Portable. The game was released in North America on June 24, 2008 with the name Hellboy: The Science of Evil with Ron Perlman reprising his role.[44] It is developed by Krome Studios, and published by Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. As well as single-player campaign where the player gets to play as Hellboy the game also features co-op play, featuring the characters Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman. Two additional levels and Lobster Johnson as a playable character (voiced by Bruce Campbell) as DLC were developed but were unreleased.

A Hellboy video game called Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Tooth Fairy Terror was released for the iPhone by Tuesday Creative on January 14, 2009.

Hellboy is a playable DLC character in Injustice 2, voiced by Bruce Barker,[45] as part of the "Fighter Pack 2". The character was released for download on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. He is brought to the Injustice universe by Brainiac who decides to add him to his collection as he is fascinated by Hellboy's human-like mind and personality despite being a demon. In his ending, Hellboy escapes from Brainiac's collection and defeats him. As a result, he is asked to assist in rounding up local supervillains before eventually returning to the B.P.R.D. but finds his work there unfulfilling and ends up retiring to Africa.

Hellboy appeared as a playable character in Brawlhalla.[46]

A Hellboy roguelike video game, titled Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, is currently in the works by developer Upstream Arcade. It is scheduled for a release on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.[47] Lance Reddick voices the title character and it was one of his final productions prior to his death.

Tabletop games

In 2002, Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game was published by Steve Jackson Games using their GURPS role-playing system, in both softcover and hardback.

Mantic Games released a Hellboy: The Board Game in 2019, after a successful crowdfunding campaign.[48]

In 2020, Mantic Games followed up the boardgame with another Hellboy Kickstarter campaign, this time for a new Hellboy roleplaying game, using D&D 5E as a base for the game rules. The roleplaying game is aiming for a March 2021 release.[49][50]

Awards

The miniseries Hellboy: Conqueror Worm won a 2002 Eisner Award for "Best Limited Series", while The Art of Hellboy won an Eisner in 2004 for "Best Comics-Related Book". Mignola won a 2000 Harvey Award for "Best Artist", based on Hellboy: Box Full of Evil. Hellboy: Darkness Calls won a 2007 Eagle Award for "Favourite Colour Comicbook – American".

The character Hellboy was nominated for "Favourite Comics Character" at the 2004 and 2005 Eagle Awards. Other Eagle Award nominations include "Favourite Comics Story published during 2007" for Hellboy: Darkness Calls, and "Favourite Comics Hero".

The comics writer Alan Moore listed Hellboy on his recommendations page, particularly Wake the Devil (Vol. 2), calling it "the skillful cutting and the setting of the stone that we can see Mignola's sharp contemporary sensibilities at work".[51]

In March 2009, Hellboy won two categories in the fan voted Project Fanboy Awards for 2008: "Best Indy Hero" and "Best Indy Character".[52]

In 2011, Hellboy was ranked 25th of the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes by IGN.[53]

Merchandise

On May 22, 2017, Dark Horse Comics, XXX Distillery LLC, and Prestige Imports LLC officially released Hellboy Hell Water Cinnamon Whiskey, a small batch, naturally-flavored whiskey.[54]

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NYCC: Hellboy Dominates 2008

External links

Official website
Hellboy Zone. Dark Horse Comics.
Hellboy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia.
Hellboy at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
Hellboy videogame at the Konami website

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